Roberto Alvim

Roberto Alvim (1973-) was the Brazilian Special Secretary of Culture from 7 November 2019 to 17 January 2020, succeeding Henrique Pires and preceding Jose Paulo Soares Martins.

Biography
Roberto Alvim was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1973, and he founded the Club Noir theatre in 2006. In 2019, he became director of Ceacen, Center of Performing Arts, in the National Foundation of the Arts, and he was appointed Special Secretary of Culture by President Jair Bolsonaro that same year. On 17 January 2020, he was fired after paraphrasing a Joseph Goebbels speech about building a new national art movement; he did so while the German composer Wagner's music (often associated with Nazi Germany) played in the background. Alvim insisted that everything was a mere coincidence, but President Bolsonaro stated that he rejected totalitarian and genocidal ideologies.